Abstract
This paper is one of the first to provide empirical evidence supporting the conceptualization of a dynamic leadership approach in which employee maturity and organizational dynamism help leaders make the right choice of leadership styles to improve employee job satisfaction. As business environments change and employee maturity differs in this dynamic business era, and as there is a chaos characterized by numerous leadership styles in the leadership literature, adopting a dynamic leadership approach has become important to identify the most effective leadership styles suitable for employees. A quantitative study using conditional process analysis was conducted to examine a dynamic leadership approach that draws on servant/transactional/transformational leadership to influence employee job satisfaction in stable and turbulent environments. Results indicated that leaders could employ transactional/transformational/servant leadership styles to further improve employee job satisfaction and should adopt servant leadership when the organizational environment is stable or weakly dynamic and should adopt transformational leadership when the environment is moderately dynamic. Results also show that highly mature employees mediate the relationship between transformational/servant leadership and job satisfaction. Findings supported the development of a new dynamic leadership approach in which leaders can skillfully change their leadership style over time by navigating through multiple leadership styles as appropriate depending on the organizational dynamism and employee maturity levels.
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Kammoe, Francois
(2025)
"A Dynamic Leadership Approach in Different Situations and Contexts,"
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership: Vol. 18
:
Iss.
2
, Article 12.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22543/1948-0733.1577
Available at:
https://scholar.valpo.edu/jvbl/vol18/iss2/12
